On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 09:04:27PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 08:16:33PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > There are a number of additional packages which might be contentious, > > as well as a few other points to discuss (if this approach is > > agreeable), > > 1. Cantarell fonts - I'm surprised that the gnome devs prefer a > specific font, instead of letting fontconfig use whatever has been > configured. I don't understand why this should be included, and > perhaps an entry in the Xft part of Xorg-7.6-2 Testing and > Configuration would be more appropriate ?
Actually, it's a *very* nice font - targetted at *small* sizes. Since the gnome3 devs apparently target netbooks and such-like, I can see why they want this. But, I still think a pointer to the appropriate place in Xorg is the correct place for this. I'm certainly going to be using it in my future desktop builds, even those with 'minimal' gnome-3, because fonts which render at 6pt are useful to me for another hobby (and I use abiword, which is too stupid to use fontconfig!). > > 2. Poppler - Wayne has 0.18.1, I used 0.18.2. These don't support > kde3 so I'm not changing the book until the future of kde3/trinity > is more clear. > And since I'm replying to myself, a question for Bruce and anyone else building trinity - can trinity's kdegraphics use the 'kde4' (I suppose that means QT-4, but I'm not certain) part of poppler-0.18 ? Some of us not using kde3 would really like to move on (I have no specific "needs poppler-0.18" requirement at the moment, I just use it, it's current and it seems to WFM). Meanwhile, on gnome-3 it's perhaps worth mentioning my current status : I've decided I'd like to build many/most of the *core* packages so that I can add missing descriptions / sizes / timings and remove any extraneous --libexecdir (and so forth) switches before I start to update the packages. I'm also thinking that I ought to throw in a few things that I know have worked in both LFS-6.8 and LFS-7.0 with (partial) gnome-2 and gnome-3 (newer libgsf, goffice, gnumeric - BTW it requires rarian, I hadn't spotted that from my previous build order - libao, desktop-file-utils). So many packages, so little time. For the 'legacy' or 'deprecated' gnome-2 packages : I'm beginning to wonder if I really care. But, I'm in no hurry to force people to drop what has worked for them. More later! (not intended as a threat, but if that's how you read it ... ) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
